How a turf war among the spies tipped off the Tube bombing mastermind

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A new book claims that bureau infighting between the FBI and the CIA let leader of the 7/7 gang slip through their fingers

IT WAS time for FBI agent Dan Coleman to go home.

And it wasn’t because he was exhausted, which he was. Or because there was nothing left for him to do as FBI’s al-Qaeda expert, the first case agent in New York on the 1993 World Trade Centre bombings and the man, it was often said, “who introduced bin Laden to America”. As the bureau’s special emissary without portfolio to the CIA and elsewhere in the US Government — as someone who knew what bits of information would actually be important in the battle against al-Qaeda — there was still